Belarus
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1 February 2012Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw
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Editorial
Our neighbour Putin
2 December 2011Presseurop -
Eastern Partnership
Summit fails to tackle big issues
3 October 20113PresseuropPresseurop -
Eastern Partnership
The East, not on the EU’s mind
29 September 20111Polityka Warsaw -
29 August 20111PresseuropThe Independent
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Eastern Partnership
A policy that moves slowly, but surely
11 July 2011Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
6 July 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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1 July 20112La Repubblica Rome
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14 June 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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Political fiction
Onwards to Europe 2.0
30 May 20117Die Welt Berlin -
Diplomacy
5 billion to aid Arab revolutions
26 May 2011PresseuropEl País -
16 May 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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Belarus
Europe speaks up for Poczobut
13 May 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
27 April 20111PresseuropLietuvos Rytas
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Belarus
Investment starved Minsk totters
19 April 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
12 April 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita
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Belarus
Croesus from Minsk
4 April 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
29 March 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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Nuclear energy
Chernobyl to Fukushima – media gets it wrong
17 March 2011Postimees Tallinn -
9 March 2011PresseuropThe Independent
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8 March 20113The Independent London
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1 March 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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EU-Belarus
Minsk tries to bargain with Brussels
31 January 20111PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
EU and Tunisia
Give Ben Ali the Lukashenko treatment
14 January 20111El País Madrid -
21 December 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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Belarus
Drop Lukashenko, not his people
20 December 2010Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
EU-Belarus
EU bows to Europe’s last dictator
17 August 2010Respekt Prague -
Poland/Belarus
Lukashenko cracks down on Poles
16 February 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Geopolitics
United, but not with Europe
9 February 20102Wprost Warsaw -
Visions of Europe (3)
Europe 2034
1 January 2010Fokus Stockholm -
Editorial
All quiet on the Eastern front
11 December 2009Presseurop -
Belarus
A university in exile
31 July 20091Cafebabel.com Paris
Tennis player Victoria Azarenka, the recent winner of the Australian Open, is now one of the few Belarusians known outside her country. A PR opportunity for the dictator of Minsk. 
As the Eastern Partnership summit opens in Warsaw, the EU, which is caught up in the ongoing financial crisis, appears to have little enthusiasm for the project, launched by Poland in 2008. As for the partner countries, they continue to present a wide spectrum of political systems, ranging from dictatorship to democracy.
Two years ago, led by Poland, the EU launched its Eastern Partnership with countries of the former USSR. Now that Warsaw is preparing to take over the rotating presidency, experts are painting a rather dispiriting outcome for this project. 
On the occasion of the Belarusian Independence Day celebrations on 3 July, anyone who dares to applaud Alexander Lukashenko risks being sent to jail. The dictator’s regime, which is in a desperate situation, is well aware that irony is the only weapon left to its opponents. 
Forget the nation-state: Europe would be much better off if it were fundamentally reorganised – into powerful regions in the north and the Alps and picturesque bankrupts in the south 
In 1986, Estonians were Soviet citizens and had no idea what was going on at Chernobyl. Today they are members of the European Union, but whether they are better informed is questionable, writes the daily Postimees. 
While Europe's eyes are on Middle East revolutions, a dictator in the east quietly crushes his opposition. But voices are beginning to make themselves heard. 
In view of the crackdown in Tunisia, the EU ought to apply the same policy of “smart sanctions” that had some sway on Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus back in 2006, urges political analyst José Ignacio Torreblanca. 
The Belarusian president is set to serve a fourth term after what seems to be another rigged election. Nonetheless, the West should not turn its back on its eastern neighbour, argues Rzeczpospolita. 
With little or no progress toward democracy in Belarus, Brussels has shelved its decade-long campaign of sanctions against the country's autocratic leader, Alexander Lukashenko, and decided to talk directly to him
The good news is that from Asia to the Americas, an increasing number of countries are coming together to create unions inspired by the EU. And the bad news? In the long term these entities may overshadow the EU on the world stage, worries Polish weekly Wprost. 
Swedish essayist Kjell Albin Abrahamsson imagines that in 25 years every European country will be in the EU – except Turkey. Armed with a common energy policy and, at long last, a single voice – the EU will take the helm in international diplomacy. 
After being closed down by the goverment in 2004, Minsk's European Humanities University is now based in Lithuania, with some help from the EU. Its aim is to educate the elite that will run the democratic Belarus of the future.